Diego Vega

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 General Availability

September 23rd, 2019

We are extremely excited to announce the general availability of EF Core 3.0and EF 6.3 on nuget.org. The final versions of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available now. How to get EF Core 3.0 EF Core 3.0 is distributed exclusively as a set of NuGet packages. For example, to add the SQL Server provider to your project, you can u

Release Candidate builds of Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 are now available

September 16th, 2019

We previously said that preview 9 would be your last chance to test EF Core 3.0 and EF 6.3 before general availability. But it turns out that we made enough improvements to our libraries and across the whole of .NET Core 3.0 to justify publishing a release candidate build. Hence the packages for EF Core 3.0 RC1 and EF 6.3 RC1 were uploaded to

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 9 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 9

September 4th, 2019

Preview 9 your last chance to try Entity Framework Core 3.0 and Entity Framework 6.3 before we release the final versions later this month. Get a head start on everything that is new and please give us your feedback.

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 8 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 8

August 13th, 2019

The Preview 8 versions of the EF Core 3.0 package and the EF 6.3 package are now available for download from nuget.org. New previews of .NET Core 3.0 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 are also available today. Please install these previews to validate that all the functionality required by your applications is available and works correctly. 

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 7 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 7

July 23rd, 2019

Today, we are making new previews of EF Core 3.0 and EF 6.3 available on nuget.org. .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 were also made available today. We encourage you to install these previews to try the new features, and to validate that all the functionality required by your applications is available and wo

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 6 and Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 6

June 13th, 2019

New previews of the next versions of EF Core and EF 6 are now available on NuGet.Org. What is new in EF Core 3.0 Preview 6 In recent months, a lot of our efforts have been focused on a new LINQ implementation for EF Core 3.0. Although the work isn't complete and a lot of the intended functionality hasn't been enabled, before preview 6 we rea

Introducing the new Microsoft.Data.SqlClient

May 8th, 2019

This post was written by Vicky Harp, Program Manager on SqlClient and SQL Server Tools. Those of you who have been following .NET development closely have very likely seen Scott Hunter's latest blog post, .NET Core is the Future of .NET. The change in focus of .NET Framework towards stability and new feature development moving to .NET Core me

Announcing Entity Framework 6.3 Preview with .NET Core Support

May 8th, 2019

The first preview of the EF 6.3 runtime is now available in NuGet. Note that the package is versioned as 6.3.0-preview5. We plan to continue releasing previews of EF 6.3 every month in alignment with the .NET Core 3.0 previews, until we ship the final version. What is new in EF 6.3? While Entity Framework Core was built from the ground u

Announcing Entity Framework Core 3.0 Preview 4

April 18th, 2019

Today, we are making the fourth preview of Entity Framework Core 3.0 available on NuGet, alongside .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4 and ASP.NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. We encourage you to install this preview to test the new functionality and assess the impact of the included breaking changes. What’s new in EF Core 3.0 Preview 4? This preview includes

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2

December 4th, 2018

Today we're making the final version of EF Core 2.2 available, alongside ASP.NET Core 2.2 and .NET Core 2.2. This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform object-database mapping technology. EF Core 2.2 RTM includes more than a hundred bug fixes and a few new features: Spatial data support Spatial data can be used to re